Launching Game in Dolphin Crashes YouTube

[RegalPixelKing]

So I like to play YouTube videos in the background while I play games. However, I ran in to this weird problem where after I launch a game in Dolphin while playing a YouTube video, the video crashes and an error message on YouTube comes up saying: "An error has occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: example)"  

After closing the game, the video runs fine with no problems. For testing I tried playing videos on Vimeo and Dailymotion and I ran in to similar problems. I also tried playing different games while playing a YouTube video and it was irrelevant what game I ran, YouTube always crashed the same way.

I've never had this problem with any other emulators, indie games, AAA games, or Dolphin until recently. I am running the newest build of Dolphin because I am using the auto-update function; I might just try using an older version of Dolphin, but it will suck not having all of the newest features. Does anybody know why this is happening and how I might fix it?  

Update: I tried an older version of Dolphin, I randomly selected a build a few dozen pages back in the master branch builds. I tried running a game and playing a video and they both worked without an issue. So whatever causes this problem is linked to something in the more recent builds.

[KHg8m3r]

Can you narrow it down to which build causes the error?

[RegalPixelKing]

(08-01-2018, 03:19 PM)KHg8m3r Wrote: Can you narrow it down to which build causes the error?

The most recent build, which would currently be 5.0-8512. I deiced to test 5.0-7999 too, they also crashed the video. So I think that all 500 of those builds will cause the same thing to happen. The build that I randomly selected and that worked with YouTube was 5.0-7146.

[Helios]

https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-green-notice-development-thread-dolphin-bisection-tool-for-finding-broken-builds

[RegalPixelKing]

(08-02-2018, 02:40 AM)Helios Wrote: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-green-notice-development-thread-dolphin-bisection-tool-for-finding-broken-builds

Alright, so the problem started with 5.0-7765. So the newest build that still works with YouTube is 5.0-7763.

[Helios]

Do you have the audio backend set as WASAPI? Try changing the audio backend.

[RegalPixelKing]

(08-02-2018, 03:15 AM)Helios Wrote: Do you have the audio backend set as WASAPI? Try changing the audio backend.

Yeah, I was using WASAPI. I switched the XAudio and it works with the most recent build. The reason that I was using WASAPI was because I built a new computer and I was having problems with XAudio until I download some driver for my mobo, I guess I never changed the setting back to XAudio.

Thanks for the help.

[Helios]

So, this isn't super surprising that YouTube broke. This isn't really a flaw in Dolphin but your web browser / youtube not gracefully handling what it should do when it can't get an audio session (using WASAPI grabs an exclusive session on your audio device).